6. Painstakingly make bracelet. Continually make stupid mistakes and have to unpick it. Curse the day friendship bracelets were ever invented.

(Pro tip: If you can, make the bracelet half a centimetre too long, but don't realise until after you've finished the bracelet and snipped all the end bits off and it's too late to change it. This bit's brilliant!)

8. Belatedly notice that all the cool kids are wearing [insert pretty much anything here]. Decide you must have one immediately.

[Repeat]

It's an arm party and YOU'RE INVITED!

P.S. I know it looks like I'm smuggling a badger up my jumper or something, but I think it's just a weird perspective. Or a weird jacket. One or the other. Also, that is a zip pocket that has left that lovely imprint on my hand. Great. And you wonder why I don't post more pictures of my outfits?

P.P.S. I nearly forgot, I have a guest post up on Red Boots! Wendy asked a few of us to write something on the topic of Our Favourite Things, while she is busy looking after her new favourite thing, little baby Elsie. There are no raindrops or kittens, but there are sequins, puddles and Smidgen adopting a weirdly demure pose. You know you want to.

gosh, I missed the boat on this one. I had NO idea that they were popular again. Too bad because I loved having all of those colors of embroidery floss neatly organized in my little bin back when I was in grade school.

It's unfortunate that the friendship bracelets have become unfashionable again as I have a source of cheap labor who love to make them, if only to prepare for summer camp. You could always describe their output as direct-source, fair trade items... since distinctly amateur bracelets in return for the occasional bags of Percy Pigs seems like a fair trade (to the girls)